Fall 2011
Faculty News
- Prof. Annas examines health law questions in recent NEJM articles
- Prof. Mariner prepares amicus brief on Affordable Care Act
- Prof. Miller celebrates 40th year teaching health law at BU
- Prof. Moncrieff uses ACA controversy as a "teaching moment"
- Prof. Outterson writes about health care reform for leading blog
Special Features
- A look at BU's Health Policy Institute
- Law Professor Khiara Bridges publishes new book
- Visiting Assistant Professor Diana Winters makes smooth transition
to academia
Program News
- Health Law Externship Program offers practical experience
- BU expands cross-disciplinary opportunities in health law
Upcoming Events at BU Law
October 3–4, 2011
Symposium: “Antimicrobial Resistance: Biology, Population Dynamics and Policy Options.” This symposium, organized by the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard School of Public Health and hosted by BU Law, will explore the roles of transmission modeling, pathogen genomics and traditional surveillance in understanding the biology and population dynamics of antimicrobial resistance. Included will be discussion on the pros and cons of proposed mechanisms to encourage development of novel antimicrobial agents. A goal of the symposium is to encourage collaboration among public health experts, modelers and biologists in studies of drug-resistant pathogens. “It’s pretty rare to get lawyers, scientists, biologists, epidemiologists and others all together in one room to discuss issues such as these,” said Kevin Outterson, an associate professor at BU Law, who will lead the antibiotic policy options session. “This will be a very rewarding conference.” The event will be held at BU Law.
October 23, 2011
Pike Conference: “The Holocaust and Its Legacy; Resiliency, Fragility and Restitution of Survivors.” Sixty-seven years have passed since the end of the Holocaust, and the remaining survivors are rapidly aging. This is the first group of genocide survivors to have reached the geriatrics age group. This year’s annual Pike Conference, sponsored by BU Law and the School of Public Health in partnership with the Florence & Chafetz Hillel House at Boston University, will focus on the resiliency and fragility of Holocaust survivors and issues of restitution. Specific topics will include care for aging Holocaust survivors and the subsequent generation, contemporary services for survivors, parallels between the pre-Holocaust and contemporary world, and present threats to Jewish survival. The Pike Award recipient will be child survivor and author Robert Krell, M.D., who will deliver a keynote titled “The Resiliency of the Survivor.” The closing program will highlight Rabbi Joseph Polak, a child survivor, who will give a talk titled “On Being the Last Witness.” The conference will take place at the Florence & Chafetz Hillel House, at 213 Bay State Road.
January 28, 2012
AJLM Symposium: “The American Right to Health: Constitutional, Statutory, and Contractual Healthcare Rights in the United States.” This symposium, part of an annual series sponsored by the American Journal of Law & Medicine and hosted at BU Law, will examine Americans’ health care rights and freedoms and the impact those rights and freedoms will have in litigation over the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Opponents of the ACA have argued in lawsuits that the new law violates structural constitutional constraints. Yet, concerns voiced in the media and in electoral campaigns have focused on the law’s substance, particularly the notion that government might be allowed to compel individuals to buy health insurance. The symposium will explore questions surrounding the interplay of structure and substance in the ACA litigation.